Chocolate chip cookie recipes never seem to jive with me – I usually have issues with the cookies spreading too much, or not rising enough. As such, I was hoping an Anna Olson recipe for Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies would end up okay. The recipe called for an unusual ingredient not usually seen – cornstarch. Apparently, it is what gives the cookies their chewy consistency. Strange, but it worked!
Very straightforward and quick, the only issue I had was keeping Mack from eating all of the cookie dough.
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Definitely give these a try – and see if you can prevent yourself from eating them all straight out of the oven!
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What can I say, I love cookie dough! Cookies turned out great.
I just tried these cookies…after everything was mixed, I put the bowl in the fridge for a bit to harden up the dough….using room temperature butter made incorporating the ingredients easy, but I felt the dough was left too soft for forming the balls. They taste good, but look nothing like the picture. They didn’t spread out at all. Should I skip the fridge step? what did you guys do? When cutting the chocolate chunks, I think I made the pieces too small… my cookies are heavily spotted in black, until Anna’s picture-perfect cookies.
Hi Lisa,
I didn’t have to put the dough in the fridge, so perhaps skipping that step would be one way to make it “picture perfect”. Secondly, you may want to check out this link: http://www.foodtv.ca/BLOG/archive/2007/11/01/october-cooking-club-results-v-chocolate-chip-cookies.aspx – it is a compendium of several people who tried the recipe for the Food Network’s monthly “cooking club”. Lots of wisdom in their comments!
Happy baking!